Hungry Heart is a 1987 Australian film about a love affair that goes wrong.[3]

Hungry Heart
Directed byLuigi Acquisto
Written byLuigi Acquisto
Based ona script by Rosa Colosimo
Josie Arnold
Angela Salamanca
Produced byRosa Colosimo
StarringNick Carrafa
Kimberley Davenport
CinematographyJaems Grant
Edited byCourtney Page
Production
companies
Chancom Ltd
Lions Den Productions
Distributed byVideo Entertainment (video)
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$500,000[1] or $785,000[2][3]

Plot

edit

Doctor Sal Bono falls in love with wool classer Kate Maloney.

Cast

edit

Production

edit

The film was shot in August 1987 at the house of producer-writer Rosa Colosimo.[1] It was director Luigi Acquisto's feature debut.[4] The soundtrack features Separate Tables who's lead singer, Schouw, costars in the film.[5]

Reception

edit

Phillipa Hawker in The Age wrote "'Hungry Heart' is '80s disaffection - not cool but cold."[6] The Sydney Morning Herald's Doug Anderson in his capsual review stated "Nick Carrafa and Davenport offer energetic performances and the film, while not considered good enough for a commercial release, has enough to make it palatable."[7] Susan Demody of Filmnews praises the "sense of an unusual openness and warmth between the characters and the generations"[8]

References

edit
  1. ^ a b David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 118
  2. ^ "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, September 1987 p. 67
  3. ^ a b Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 83
  4. ^ "The darker side of love", Cinema Papers, May 1988
  5. ^ Bruce, David (18 March 1988), "Losing love in tangled webs", The Age
  6. ^ Hawker, Phillipa (2 September 1988), "Art that starts in the home", The Age
  7. ^ Anderson, Doug (18 January 1993), "Hungry Heart", The Sydney Morning Herald
  8. ^ Demody, Susan (1 December 1988), "Love, Sex and the Melodrama of Relationships", Filmnews
edit